Quotes About Relationships

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other forms of fun. . . / With this the gist and sum of it, / What earthly good can come of it?

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

we can love someone without understanding that person.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table.

Love is happy only when it is confident. When it is humble, it is full of pain and misgiving; there is hardly any happiness to be had out of it at all.

In the bosom of a family, nothing can be hidden. One might wish, when things are bad, to suffer unobserved, but in a family there is no chance of that.

It was awful to have no one belonging to you, and to belong to no one.

At some point in the family history, parents begin to look to children for explanation, instead of children to parents.

No matter how you resent other people's company, when you have it, you can't concentrate so fiercely upon your misery as you would without it.

No such snake as family criticism had ever reared its head among the Lockwoods before.

Children make parents as wretched as parents make children; but children do not really believe that. They can't understand how it is that those whom they take for tyrants can be hurt by the victims of the tyranny.

Introducing your lovers helps prevent one of the scariest aspects of jealousy, which is the part where you imagine that your lover's other lover is taller, thinner, smarter, sexier, and in all ways preferable to funky old you. When you meet that other person or when your lovers meet each other, they meet real people, warts and all, and so often wind up feeling safer. Introducing

We think that relationship structures should be designed to fit the people in them rather than people chosen to fit some abstract ideal of the perfect relationship. There's no right or wrong way to do this as long as everyone's having fun and getting their needs met.

It is basic to any relationship, and particularly important in open relationships, that no one can own another person.

Marriage today is the outcome government imposing its standards on personal relationships, legislating a one-size-fits-all mandate for how people in sexual or domestic relationships ought to run their lives.